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[MJC922]

Mr. Benter deserves much credit as he's obviously a brilliant man. When you examine the circumstances however I do believe even he would admit those were ideal conditions. He clearly worked very hard to accomplish what he did in an environment that was ideal to operate in. I think back to the article I read where in the early days before he was given direct access to the tote he had time to walk across the street and place his bets at the off track betting shop across from his office.

You have to understand these were days when hardly anyone even had a computer, the crowd wasn't stupid but there was all kinds of money to be made and he found a way to make it bigtime. I can tell you for certain odds volatility was nothing like it is with for example US racing today. To make use of the tote odds in a model, process the bet sizes etc and then have time to walk across the street with a few minutes to post, and punch out tickets, it would be awfully hard to see that working out the same way today.

Would he find a way to win today? I wouldn't bet against him but IMO it wouldn't be anything close to what it was like back then.